Shakeela
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃeɪkɛɫə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shakeela is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 27K(inferred from the name graph)
- TZTanzania≈1 in 3Kas Shakila
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 8.6Kas Shakila
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Shakeela itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Afghanistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 184 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
≈21,000 named Shakila, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Shakila in TZ Tanzania, BD Bangladesh, AF Afghanistan and 2 more and Sakhila in GE Georgia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shakeela counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AF Afghanistan | #359 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Shakila | 8 |
| TZ Tanzania | #361 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | 1 | Shakila | 15 |
| BD Bangladesh | #553 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | listed | Shakila | 49 |
| PK Pakistan | #671 | ≈8,500 est. | ≈1 in 27K | listed | Shakeela | 35 |
| LK Sri Lanka | #717 | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | — | Shakila | 29 |
| GE Georgia | — | 257as სახილა | 1 in 16K | 257 | Sakhila | 2 |
| ES Spain | — | 54 | 1 in 926K | 54 | Shakila | 8 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register; INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results; Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 54 | #26,091 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 45 | #13,660 |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Shakeela?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃeɪkɛɫə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Shakeela a male or female name?
- Shakeela is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Shakeela have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 21 thousand people named Shakila in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Shakeela?
- In Spain, the national register counted 54 people named Shakeela, about 1 in 926 thousand residents.
- How common is Shakeela compared with other names?
- In Afghanistan, Shakeela is the 359th most common given name of 21,469 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Shakeela?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shakeelaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Shakeela” — the 359th most common given name in Afghanistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.